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Dear Q & A: I was watching TV the other night and caught the final few seconds of a report on the so-called Smart car. Not enough to find out much about it except it gets 50-plus miles per gallon and looks like you could put three of them in a standard parking space. What can you tell me about it?                    — Neil Dear Neil: An innovative product of Daimler-Chrysler, the Smart ForTwo has been sold in Canada since 2004. Nick Hayek, CEO of watchmaker Swatch, pitched the idea of a mini-car successfully to D-C, and the name, naturally, came out as S (from Swatch), M (Mercedes), and ART (because it’s arty?). Its primary asset is its length, or more accurately, its shortness, a dinky 98.5 inches. It’s 59.5 inches wide. Fuel economy is claimed to be 48 city, 70 highway, in a car that weighs only 1,588 pounds and has a three-cylinder 800-cc engine cranking...
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